by Rolph David
She doesn’t cry—her throat forgot the sound.
No food. No water. Just a mother’s stare.
Her child’s bones knock like glass beneath her skin.
They wait for death. No doctor’s hands, no light.
A school is shelled. The chalkboard bursts in blood.
The maths is simple: one bomb kills a class.
The lies are printed fresh on every screen—
"We target threats." But infants make no war.
A surgeo...
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by David R Mellor
And so it goes
On
People protest
Against dead bodies
“They’re all terrorists
each and every one”
He says, they say
And so it goes on
The people are lost
Picking through rubble
Discovering their loved ones
Dead clothes
But the truth is being hidden
Sanitised by the news
The killing is not so awful
They plead
And so...
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